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25 Oct, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Good morning, and happy Last Day Before The Saskatchewan Provincial Election. Over the past month, we've uploaded around 50 posts from Saskatchewan women writers with many ideas for SK future.
womenforsaskatchewan.ca
Ours Voices of Iskwewak series, written by Indigenous leaders, is amongst the most powerful writing, shining light with an Indigenous lens. womenforsaskatchewan.ca/category/voice…
Many of the posts touch on aspects of education policy. womenforsaskatchewan.ca/category/educa…
In Saskatchewan, health policy topics receive our attention. Warning: these posts are among the most personal, searing, and direct. womenforsaskatchewan.ca/category/healt…
Topics related to rural policy are found here, including my own contributions to the site. womenforsaskatchewan.ca/category/rural…
Environmental policy has been a major theme for the site, as well:
womenforsaskatchewan.ca/category/envir…
Economic policies receive concerted attention (read in particular my favourite So Long Status Quo by Winter Fedyk): womenforsaskatchewan.ca/category/econo…
There are plenty of options, under lots of categories, for reading. But if you would rather listen, there are some fantastic podcasts, too! womenforsaskatchewan.ca/category/podca…
The site continues to build. If you have thoughts on a subject and want to pull up a pen, you can become a contributor here: womenforsaskatchewan.ca/become-a-contr…

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Merle Massie☆ ⛷🚜✒🇨🇦 Profile picture
27 Oct
So...when I say that there is energy in last night's Buffalo Party vote, I decided to break it down. They ran 17 candidates in ridings across the province. Definitely an indicator of not great organization (Greens ran 60, PCs 31) but 17 ran.
In those ridings, the percentage of the vote ranged from a low of 3.49% of that riding's vote (Saskatoon Stonebridge Dakota) up to a whopping 25.50% in Estevan.
So if you average the percentage votes from the ridings where they had candidates, it's 9.35% of the total votes across those 17 ridings.
*9.35%*
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26 Oct
There are several key posts on @women4sask site on mental health care. Danielle Chartier:
The excellent @LanaShawAg brings a visceral personal call for support for rural caregivers: womenforsaskatchewan.ca/lana-shaw-supp…
Chelsea Bleau calls it like it is: Saskatchewan is in a mental health crisis: womenforsaskatchewan.ca/chelsea-bleau-…
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10 Oct
This was a week of interesting conversations, both public and private. In two cases, I was asked to clarify *why* rural folks think in particular ways around climate change, especially pipelines and the 'just' transition to green energy. A thread:
[Note: I do not speak for all rural residents. These are my opinions, drawn from what I see and hear. They are by no means universal].
Pipelines: farmers grow crops, and the majority of those crops are sold on the international market, shipped far and wide. To get those crops to markets, they are shipped in grain cars on rail lines. It is the only option.
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8 Oct
I am confused. Were the charges stayed, or withdrawn? There is a huge legal difference, despite the lawyer interviewed in the article (whose remarks should be reviewed by the law society).
cbc.ca/news/canada/sa…
A charge that is stayed is still on the court record and can be reactivated. It matters who requested the stay of charges. pardons.org/stay-of-charge…
This overview showcases that a withdrawn charge is very different from a charge that is stayed. More said in the interview that he did not flee the scene. But here's the thing: no RCMP officer writes up a charge unless they are sure of their facts.
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30 Aug
I'm a historian. I follow a lot of historians on Twitter.

I've yet to find a single historian angry about statues being torn down.

(Book burning, though...or reducing funding to archives...that gets them hopping. Since that's an actual site of history loss). Statues? Nope.
Let me explain. I have a new book out, about a person: Sylvia Fedoruk. (It's called A Radiant Life and a great place to find it is @McNallySK) It's entirely possible that an artist could be commissioned to create a statue of Sylvia. Great.
How much of Sylvia's life would you know or learn by reading the 3 sentence tablet affixed to the base of her statue? Not much, and not nearly enough. You can't encapsulate a life that way.
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29 Aug
It's time for another edition of 10 Cool Things About Sylvia Fedoruk!
1. Syl was instrumental in rescuing Sask's cobalt bomb for posterity: first, mounted in the ceiling of the cancer clinic; now, a valued part of the @wdmtweets Western Development Museum collection in Saskatoon.
2. In the 1960s, Syl's research shifted to early cancer detection. She and student Trevor Cradduck (@kestonboy) envisioned and built the rectilinear scanner in 1962 -- it scanned on a grid like plowing a field. Both table and scanner moved in synch.
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